What learners say about LingoBear
“Hands down one of the best language apps I've tried, love it.”
gayshouldbecanon
“Really cool way to build vocab breadth and depth on topics of interest! Especially love the explanation field which provides so much helpful context.”
vayabien
“I really think this will help language learners with motivation. It's great that you can type in your interest, and it creates a story/article for you. Well done!”
Chasing_toucans
“This is really cool! The UI is very intuitive and not annoying and the text it generated was interesting and the right level for me. This really is the first language tool I've seen in a while that's actually interesting and fresh.”
anonymous
“Just tried it out. This is Awesome! I'll be using it on my Xbox a lot I can foresee.”
michaeldross
“Loved it. This is the kind of thing that makes me excited about generative AI in the language learning space.”
ButterflyBitter888
Every word in your Occitan reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for comparing with French and Catalan.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Occitan reading passage — useful when textbooks focus narrowly on troubadour-era texts.
Occitan (Occitan, lenga d'òc) is a Romance language native to southern France, Monaco, the Val d'Aran in Catalonia and a few Italian Alpine valleys. It was the language of the medieval troubadours — the first major literary tradition in vernacular Europe — and one of the most prestigious tongues of 12th-century Europe. Today UNESCO classifies it as severely endangered, with around 200,000 speakers.
Occitan has several major dialect groups: Provençal, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Auvergnat, Vivaro-Alpine. There are two main written norms — the etymological 'classical' (or Alibert) orthography used in education and by most modern publishers, and the Mistralian norm based on Provençal and used by the Félibrige movement. Aranese, the variety of Val d'Aran in Spain, is co-official there.